Big Water Film Festival - Bay Theater - Ashland - Wisconsin

15th Annual Big Water Film Festival
November 2-5, 2022
  • home slider 25
  • home slider 24
  • home slider 21
  • home slider 22
  • home slider 20
  • home slider 13
  • home slider 12
  • home slider 11
  • home slider 10
  • home slider 9
  • home slider 8
  • home slider 7
  • home slider 6
  • home slider 5
  • home slider 4
  • home slider 3
  • home slider 2
  • home slider 1

This Year’s Films

The 14th Annual Big Water Film Festival, shown virtually over eight weeks, is now completed. If you'd like to see the films we showed this year, click here.   Films for the 15th Annual Big Water Film Festival will be available here later in 2022.

Sponsorship

Thank you to all our businesses and individuals who have sponsored us in past years!  If you would like to sponsor the 15th Annual Big Water Film Festival, to be held in November, 2022, we would definitely appreciate your financial support.  For more information on sponsorships, please click here.

Volunteer

We'd love to have you volunteer for the November, 2022, Festival.  To put your name on our volunteer list, please click here. We'll get in touch with you.  It's fun to volunteer at BWFF, and you get to see free films!

Want to submit a film?

Our call for entries for the 15th Big Water Film Festival in November, 2022, is now open.  All films must be entered through Film Freeway.  Please go to our Film Freeway listing by clicking here.  Our Film Freeway site has more information.

News

The 14th Annual Big Water Film Festival was a big success!

The 14th Annual Big Water Film Festival has now finished up.  Our first venture into the land of virtual film festivals came off better than we ever dreamed!  First off, we had spectacular films.  We thank every filmmaker who entrusted us with their film to show to our audience.  Next, we had great audiences.  If each week of our films had been a block of films showing at the Bay Theater in Ashland, we would have more than sold out the theater, more than once.  Finally, due to the donations that many of you made to the Film Festival and due to the Chequamegon Food Co-op’s including us in their “chip-up” program, we broke even, even though we sought no sponsors and charged no admission fees.  Thank you!

Here are the winners of this year’s Big Water Film Festival Awards:

Audience Favorite:  Better Than Neil Armstrong – Alireza Ghasemi – Iran. (Week 1)

Best Short:  Cold Storage – Thomas Freundlich-  Finland.  (Week 7)

Best Short-Short:  Amanzi Olwandle – Timothy Hay – South Africa. (Week 7)

Best Feature:  Skate or Die – Ryan Ferguson – United States. (Week 2)

Best Documentary:  Say His Name – Five Days for George Floyd – Cy Dodson – United States.  (Week 2)

We are already receiving films for our consideration for the 15th Big Water Film Festival.  We’ll be posting more about that in the months to come.